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We propose that a high-quality flat interface or boundary can serve as a long-range skew scatterer for charged quasiparticles in a metal. When an electric current flows parallel to the interface, the balance between clockwise and…

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Orbital magnetization is known empirically to play an important role in several magnetic phenomena, such as permanent magnetism and ferromagnetic superconductivity. Within the recently developed ''modern theory of orbital magnetization'',…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-28 Tor Jonas Sjöstrand , Krister Karlsson , Ferdi Aryasetiawan

We calculate the orbital magnetization of single and double quantum dots coupled both by Coulomb interaction and by electron tunneling. The electronic states of the quantum dots are calculated in a tight-binding model and the magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Aldea , V. Moldoveanu , M. Nita , A. Manolescu , V. Gudmundsson , B. Tanatar

We present a simple and general method for construction of localized orbitals to describe electronic structure of extended periodic metals and insulators as well as confined systems. Spatial decay of these orbitals is found to exhibit…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Joydeep Bhattacharjee , Umesh V Waghmare

The orbital magnetization of the electron gas on a two-dimensional kagome lattice under a perpendicular magnetic field is theoretically investigated. The interplay between the lattice geometry and magnetic field induce nontrivial $k$-space…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-01 Zhigang Wang , Zi-Gang Yuan , Zhen-Guo Fu , Shu-Shen Li , Ping Zhang

Slow magnetic relaxation and two level fluctuations measurements under high current injection is performed in single-contacted ferromagnetic nanostructures. The magnetic configurations of the samples are described by two metastable states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -E. Wegrowe

The distinctive symmetry properties of pure altermagnets make them natural candidates for piezomagnetism. Previous work motivated by the piezomagnetic properties of altermagnets has primarily focused on the spin magnetization response to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-11 Beryl Bell , Jörn W. F. Venderbos

We suggest the new definition of the magnetization. For the two - dimensional Ising model with the free boundary conditions we calculate this magnetization.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yury M. Zinoviev

In recent years it has become understood that quantum oscillations of the magnetization as a function of magnetic field, long recognized as phenomena intrinsic to metals, can also manifest in insulating systems. Theory has shown that in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-20 Andrew A. Allocca , Nigel R. Cooper

We present a technique for partitioning the total energy from a semi-local density functional theory calculation into contributions from individual electronic states in a localized Wannier basis. We use our technique to reveal the key role…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-15 Ethan T. Ritz , Guru Khalsa , Hsin-Yu Ko , Ju-an Zhang , Robert A. DiStasio , Nicole A. Benedek

We develop the theory and practical expressions for the full quantum-mechanical distribution of the intrinsic macroscopic polarization of an insulator in terms of the ground state wavefunction. The central quantity is a cumulant generating…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ivo Souza , Tim Wilkens , Richard M. Martin

Magnetoelectric responses are a fundamental characteristic of materials that break time-reversal and inversion symmetries (notably multiferroics) and, remarkably, of "topological insulators" in which those symmetries are unbroken. Previous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Andrew M. Essin , Ari M. Turner , Joel E. Moore , David Vanderbilt

We find that, in the mesoscopic regime, modification of the material's surface can induce an extensive change of the material's magnetic moment. In other words, perturbation of order $N^2$ atoms on the surface of a 3-dimensional solid can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Kevin Moseni , Sinisa Coh

Topological insulator (TI) surface states exert strong spin-orbit torques. When the magnetization is in the plane its interaction with the TI conduction electrons is non-trivial, and is influenced by extrinsic spin-orbit scattering. This is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Mohsen Farokhnezhad , James H. Cullen , Dimitrie Culcer

The expressions are received for neutron reflection from the wave resonator placed in an oscillating magnetic field. The conditions are defined for optimal values of the neutron wave resonator and magnetic field parameters. Numerical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-28 Yu. V. Nikitenko

The orbital motion of electrons in a three-dimensional solid can generate a pseudoscalar magnetoelectric coupling $\theta$, a fact we derive for the single-particle case using a recent theory of polarization in weakly inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-16 Andrew M. Essin , Joel E. Moore , David Vanderbilt

Recent studies revealed that the electric multipole moments of insulators result in fractional electric charges localized to the hinges and corners of the sample. We here explore the magnetic analog of this relation. We show that a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-28 Haruki Watanabe , Yasuyuki Kato , Hoi Chun Po , Yukitoshi Motome

In our previous publication [S. Ozaki and M. Ogata, Phys. Rev. Research 3, 013058], the quantization of the orbital-Zeeman (OZ) cross term in the magnetic susceptibility, or the cross term of spin Zeeman and orbital effect, was shown for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Soshun Ozaki , Masao Ogata

Functionals that strive to correct for such self-interaction errors, such as those obtained by imposing the Perdew-Zunger self-interaction correction or the generalized Koopmans' condition, become orbital dependent or orbital-density…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-30 Cheol-Hwan Park , Andrea Ferretti , Ismaila Dabo , Nicolas Poilvert , Nicola Marzari

We argue that various kinds of topological insulators (TIs) can be insightfully characterized by an inspection of the charge centers of the hybrid Wannier functions, defined as the orbitals obtained by carrying out a Wannier transform on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Maryam Taherinejad , Kevin F. Garrity , David Vanderbilt